Exec at NBC parent company Comcast raises $1.2 million for Obama

Over the last year and a half, particularly since the labor dispute between the state of Wisconsin and its public employees, there has been a lot of effort at MSNBC aimed at casting the Koch brothers as billionaires trying to interfere with the democratic process. But a case could be made that MSNBC isn’t so far removed from money influencing the democratic process either.

“Campaign officials said about 800 people, each giving at least $100, attended the first event, at a Hyatt hotel,” Bacon and Kang wrote. “Later in the evening, Comcast’s executive vice president,David L. Cohen, hosted about 120 people in his home for a dinner, each of the attendees giving at least $10,000 for Obama’s reelection campaign.”

The story also pointed out that Cohen had “successfully shepherded the regulatory review of Comcast’s merger with NBC Universal earlier this year.”